Angelina's Life in Motion

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! Sorry it's a little late. I hope many of you were able to spend time with your families. You know, I was able to talk to several of my family members on Thursday and it was such a blessing. My sister Julianne told me that her Sunday School teacher told her that we should thank God a lot on Thanksgiving, so Julie said she was thanking God every few minutes. If we'd really take the time to stop and thank God, we would have an endless list....even if things haven't been going quite so well for you, God is good! I'm thankful for so many things....my parents, my family, my relatives, the people at LBT who have cared for me every since I was a small girl, for all my professors at IWU who made such a great impact on my life, the library staff at IWU, the people at FIrst Landmark Missionary Baptist where I spent my 4 college years worshipping at, my friends from college and my best friend Jenny at home in Lima, the staff at EBM and many others! I am especially thankful for the opportunity to be here in Puebla and for God's blessing on my life! Well, even though Mexicans don't celebrate Thanksgiving, I was still able to have Thanksgiving with some missionaries here. The Hudsons and Nevins and another single teacher and I had dinner together. It was nice. The whole week was great! It was the most relaxing vacation I've had in years. I spent Thanksgiving break last year working on my student teaching portfolio. My other breaks I'd spend doing projects or working to pay for college. So, to have a whole week to do nothing was great! At the beginning of the week, us EBMers went on a little 2 day retreat to a vacation center. I shared a room with Debbie Hudson. We had fun. The hotel had the biggest pool I've ever seen and we were able to swim (indoors, not outdoors.) We had a beautiful view of Malinche (one of the mountains) and we played games at night and just had fun. Yesterday I went to a hill that overlooks the city of Puebla. It's called something like La Colera. For any of you reading who came with LBT in 1996, it's the same hill we went to. Remember it? We went near dark and watched the lights of the city come on. Well, since then many homes have been added to the hill, but it's still an amazing and breathtaking view of the city. Our neighborhood is the highest point in Puebla, so you can easily identify it. Our neighborhood is called La Paz (Peace.) About 3 million people live in the city and the city goes on for miles and miles....it's the only thing you see when you look out! It reminded me that it's easy to forget the other 2, 999,000 people that mostly don't know about Jesus. There is a mission field here! Please pray for me that I will have the opportunity to reach out to at least a few Mexicans while I'm here. While my main ministry here is teaching missionary kids, as a Christian my ultimate mission is to share Christ with others. So, a challenge to other Christians is to remember your ultimate mission as well! Have a great week. Oh yeah...one more thing....20 days and I'll be home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!